Contact Zones and Exchange in the Crown of Aragon and the Mediterranean
Sponsoring Organization(s)
North American Catalan Society
Organizer Name
John August Bollweg, Núria Silleras-Fernández
Organizer Affiliation
College of DuPage, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Presider Name
Montserrat Piera
Presider Affiliation
Temple Univ.
Paper Title 1
Transforming Courtly Practice: The Impact of Hohenstaufen and Angevin Princesses as Queens of the Crown of Aragon
Presenter 1 Name
Eileen P. McKiernan González
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Berea College
Paper Title 2
Words as Deeds: Deriving Political Legitimacy from Humanist Philosophy in the Fifteenth Century
Presenter 2 Name
Hollie Allen
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Paper Title 3
A Mediterranean Contact Zone in El Monserrate: Masculinity, Power, and the Questioning of a Castilian Spanish Empire
Presenter 3 Name
Vicente Lledó-Guillem
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Hofstra Univ.
Start Date
15-5-2016 8:30 AM
Session Location
Schneider 1135
Description
Contact zones, as Mary Louise Pratt theorized, are spaces where cultures meet and interact – border towns or trading centers where the movement of people and commodities creates contact. The medieval Crown of Aragon and its Mediterranean hegemony -- a dynastic aggregate that combined the Kingdoms of Aragon, Valencia, Mallorca, and the Principality of Catalonia, but also included at various times lands in what is now France (Montpellier and Corsica), Italy (Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia), Tunisia (Djerba), and Greece (the Duchy of Athens and Neopatria) -- can be seen as a contact zone where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived and interacted. For this session NACS seeks papers that study and understand the Crown of Aragon as a contact zone where different ethno-religious groups lived and interacted, and where a broad cultural exchange of people, ideas, and objects sheds light not only on the dynamics of acculturation and exchange that characterized the region but also the multivalent identities of these regions.
Contact Zones and Exchange in the Crown of Aragon and the Mediterranean
Schneider 1135
Contact zones, as Mary Louise Pratt theorized, are spaces where cultures meet and interact – border towns or trading centers where the movement of people and commodities creates contact. The medieval Crown of Aragon and its Mediterranean hegemony -- a dynastic aggregate that combined the Kingdoms of Aragon, Valencia, Mallorca, and the Principality of Catalonia, but also included at various times lands in what is now France (Montpellier and Corsica), Italy (Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia), Tunisia (Djerba), and Greece (the Duchy of Athens and Neopatria) -- can be seen as a contact zone where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived and interacted. For this session NACS seeks papers that study and understand the Crown of Aragon as a contact zone where different ethno-religious groups lived and interacted, and where a broad cultural exchange of people, ideas, and objects sheds light not only on the dynamics of acculturation and exchange that characterized the region but also the multivalent identities of these regions.